Classic Cat Stories - Hardcover

by Various (Author)

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Cats, be they much loved pets or inscrutable creatures, lend themselves to stories and literary invention.

Classic Cat Stories is a beautiful anthology that includes fairy tales and fables from the likes of Rudyard Kipling and Charles Perrault as well as comic tales from Saki and E. F. Benson. Cats of course have always had a dark and mysterious side which is explored to chilling effect by the likes of Edgar Allen Poe in The Black Cat and H. P. Lovecraft in The Cats of Ulthar. But above all, we love them and you'll find here stories about all kinds of cats that tug at the heartstrings and which celebrate their curious ways.

Author Biography

A wonderfully entertaining selection of stories about cats from Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Jerome K. Jerome, L. M. Montgomery, Saki, M. R. James, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, E. F. Benson, Walter de la Mare, Charles Perrault, Balzac trans. Van Vechten, Ethel Colburn Mayne, Stephen Vincent Benet, H. P. Lovecraft, E. Nesbit, W. L. Alden, Compton Mackenzie, St John Lucas, Edgar Allan Poe and Damon Runyon.